There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
HENRY JAMESWhen you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
More Henry James Quotes
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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